Arthur Thomas Rigby

Brief Life History of Arthur Thomas

When Arthur Thomas Rigby was born in 1888, in Woolton, Lancashire, England, his father, Alfred Rigby, was 39 and his mother, Ann Eaton, was 35. He lived in Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1963, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Rigby
1849–1910
Ann Eaton
1853–1893
Elizabeth Rigby
1872–
Mary Rigby
1874–
Isabella Rigby
1876–
William Rigby
1881–
John Rigby
1883–1927
Alfred Rigby
1885–
Arthur Thomas Rigby
1888–1963
James Rigby
1890–1971
Ann Rigby
1892–

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  • Arthur T Rigby in household of Alfred Rigby, "England and Wales Census, 1891"

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1908

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Name Meaning

English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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